El Ott

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El Ott

Director: Ibrahim El-BatoutEgypt, United Arab Emirates | Arabic2014 |
92min.Subtitles: EnglishFormat: DCPTheme:
V18 Ibrahim El-Batout's story is a character study of a small time Egyptian gangster El Ott (played with great intensity by Amr Waked) who is both divorced from his wife Salma and estranged from family after his daughter Amina was mysteriously kidnapped and lost in Cairo. He discovers that Fathi, a human and organ trafficking mobster boss, has recently kidnapped street children from his neighborhood in order to sell their organs. It consumes El Ott and fuels his anger for what might have become of his own lost daughter motivating him to destroy Fathi.
El Ott's existence is devoured confronting the operations of this child trafficking gang and navigating the underworld to put an end to Fathi's butchery. El Ott does not go it alone but recruits his brother El Ghagary for protection. A fascinating series of events unfolds when a mysterious man claims he has been watching El Ott and offers him a lucrative deal to take down Fathi and his trafficking operation. El Ott along with his brother Ghagary begin a journey through the underworld confronting their own demons as they struggle to take down Fathi and his cohorts. The journey reunites El Ott with his family but there can be no comfort knowing the vicious cycle of organ trafficking will continue through Egypt.
—Mohammad Khawaja

Director,
Ibrahim El-Batout

Director,
Ibrahim El-Batout

Award-winning filmmaker Ibrahim El-Batout was born in Egypt and graduated in physics from the American University, Cairo, in 1985. He worked as documentary director, producer and cameraman from 1987 to 2004, specializing in war zone documentaries for TV, including ZDF, ITN, ARTE, ABC and CBS. On his return to Egypt in 2004 he made his feature debut with Ithaki (2005). His other notable films include Eye of the Sun (2008), Hawy (2010) and the widely acclaimed Winter of Discontent (2012), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival